(Times of Israel) Islamic cleric Raed Salah, who heads the banned Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was arrested Monday in Umm al-Fahm. Police said Tuesday he was "a central instigator" of incitement to violence and terror. Salah has spearheaded campaigns asserting that "Al-Aqsa [mosque] is in danger," an allegation that was at the heart of last month's violence at the site in Jerusalem. Salah was released from prison in January after serving a nine-month sentence for incitement to violence and racism, after being convicted over a 2007 sermon in which he praised martyrdom for the sake of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque.
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